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3 years ago

The practice of _____ involves companies offering to harvest personal information from social networking and other sites.

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The answer that fits the blank provided above is the term PHISHING. This is the process wherein people harvest personal information using sites or social networking sites by sending emails or faking accounts or websites. Their sole purpose is to gather other's information or identity. Answer for this is option D.

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Answer:

The amount of stockholders' equity as of July 1 of the current year is $39,994

Explanation:

In John Wong, DVM, on July 1 of the current year:

Total asset = Cash + Accounts Receivable + Supplies + Land = $10,687 + $8,307 + $1,853 + $24,857 = $45,704

Liabilities = Accounts Payable = $5,710

Basing on accounting equation:

Total asset = Liabilities + Stockholders' Equity

Stockholders' Equity = Total asset - Liabilities = $45,704 - $5,710 = $39,994

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2 years ago

A broker-dealer and its agent are registered in State A. The agent tells a customer in State A that he is prohibited from making

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Answer:

There is a violation of Uniform State Law because the agent has made an offer to sell an unregistered non-exempt security in that State

Explanation:

The Uniform State Securities Law is also called blue sky law, and they are put in place at the State level to prevent fraud and to enforce security regulation.

This law was set up to handle investments that do not occur at the federal level. These are out of the purview of the SEC so states handle them.

In the given scenario the agent is trying to make a non exempt security exempt by buying it from the client.

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2 years ago

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Answer: A. The island of Atlantis has an increasing opportunity cost of producing potatoes and the production possibility frontier is bowed outward.

Explanation:

When there is an increasing opportunity cost of producing a good, the Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) will be bowed out to represent that as more of the good is being produced, more of another good is being given up to do so.

For the island of Atlantis therefore, as they produce more of potatoes, they are giving up being able to produce whatever more and more of other goods they produce which is therefore leading to a PPF that is bowed outward.

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3 years ago

A fixed asset with a cost of $31,588 and accumulated depreciation of $28,429.20 is sold for $5369.96. What is the amount of gain

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Answer:

$2,238.16

Explanation:

In the disposal of assets, gain or loss will be a comparison between the book value and the selling price.

Book value is the asset costs minus accumulated depreciation.

in this case, the book value will be

= Asset cost - Depreciation

= $31,588- $28,429.20

=$3,158.8 is the book value.

Gain or loss = selling price- book value

=$5,369.96 - $3,158.8

=$2,238.16

A gain of$2,238.16 will be gain from that sale.

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